Dr. Peter Donaldson is serving as team physician for the U.S. Youth Olympic Men’s Hockey Team for the first time in 2024.
Dr. Donaldson previously served as team physician for the U.S. Paralympic Sled Hockey Team at the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games. He also worked as a physician for Team USA at the 2012 Summer Olympics, 2011 Pan American Games, and at the U.S. Olympic Training Centers in Colorado Springs and Lake Placid, New York.
The Michigan native was also team physician for Oakland University, Madonna University, the Plymouth Whalers of the Ontario Hockey League, as well as several Detroit area high schools.
Following undergraduate studies at Boston College and Oxford University in England and a post-baccalaureate at Princeton University, Dr. Donaldson earned his medical degree from Wayne State University School of Medicine. He completed his residency training in emergency medicine at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He then served as assistant chief of the division of emergency medicine at Mercy Hospital in Portland, Maine. He returned to metropolitan Detroit where he completed a fellowship in sports medicine at Providence Hospital.